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detection limit; extra-virgin olive oil; mass spectrometry; maximum residue limits; metals; nitric acid
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... The determination in olive oils of the legislated metals (As, Cu, Fe and Pb) by the International Olive Oil Council (IOC) has been carried out by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) following microwave digestion with nitric acid. The method has been validated using an oil reference material and by recovery experiments, obtaining in both cases satisfactory results. The detection l ...
control methods; desorption; detection limit; extra-virgin olive oil; flavor; gas chromatography; mass spectrometry; odor compounds; odors; olives; screening; trademarks; Spain
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... A reliable, sensitive and effective automated method based on dynamic headspace–thermal desorption (DHS–TD) combined to gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) was developed to identify and quantify simultaneously 51 characteristic volatile compounds from extra-virgin olive oils (EVOOs). The most important parameters affecting the DHS extraction were evaluated by two chemometric approaches: a ...
aldehydes; extra-virgin olive oil; frying; iodine value; linseed oil; monitoring; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; polar compounds; sunflower oil; temperature
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... Linseed oil was heated at frying temperature in an industrial fryer for 20 h. The evolution of its composition was monitored by ¹H Nuclear magnetic resonance. The composition parameters determined simultaneously were: the molar percentage of the different acyl groups, the Iodine Value, the concentration of the total aldehydes as well as of the different kinds of aldehydes; in addition, the perce ...
extra-virgin olive oil; least squares; models; peroxide value; prediction; spectroscopy
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... The potential of stepwise orthogonalisation of predictors (SELECT) coupled with multivariate calibration methods and pre-processing tools was examined to develop reliable and parsimonious regression models based on Fourier-transform mid-infrared (FT-MIR) spectroscopy for the prediction of peroxide value in extra virgin olive oils. The comprehensive calibration methodology proposed also involved th ...
bioactive properties; business enterprises; byproducts; extra-virgin olive oil; half life; high performance liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; monitoring; oleuropein; polyphenols; shelf life; tanks
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... The goal of this work was to monitor the phenolic profile of extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) and of storage by-products in order to achieve a better understanding of the behaviour of these bioactive compounds during storage in the mill companies. Olive oil was stored in 1000-L tanks for 10 months. Qualitative and quantitative variations of the bioactive polyphenols over time were evaluated by high-p ...
... The aim of this work was to determine the effect of natural-style processing, by using three different cultivars, on the oxidative and hydrolytic degradation of the lipid fraction of table olives. Samplings were made at harvest and after 4 and 8 months of processing. The Italian table olive cultivars Bella di Cerignola, Termite di Bitetto, and Peranzana, diffused in the Apulia region, were conside ...
extra-virgin olive oil; fluorescence; hexane; high performance liquid chromatography; liquid-liquid extraction; olives; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; soybean oil; vegetable oil; Brazil
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... The consumption of extra virgin olive oil has been growing in Brazil over the years. However, as it is an expensive product, many consumers tend to substitute extra virgin olive oil with a cheaper alternative, such as vegetable oil blends (mainly a mixture of olive and soybean oils). In the preset study, different brands of oil blends were evaluated for the occurrence of 13 polycyclic aromatic hyd ...
alcohols; antioxidants; bioactive compounds; extra-virgin olive oil; fats and oils industry; filtration; flavones; lignans; monitoring; nutritive value; olives; oxidative stability; secoiridoids; shelf life; water content; Mediterranean region
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... The aim of this study was to evaluate extra-virgin olive oil (EVOO) moisture and phenolic compounds content during industrial filtration, which is widely applied in the most olive-oil industries of the main producing countries of the Mediterranean as a final step prior to selling the oil. For this purpose, conventional filtration process was performed in duplicate using two lots (lot 1 and lot 2), ...
Sardina pilchardus; deep fat frying; docosahexaenoic acid; extra-virgin olive oil; fillets; fish; high performance liquid chromatography; phosphatidylcholines; phosphatidylethanolamines; species diversity; spectrometers; sunflower oil; temperature
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... The effects of deep-fat frying performed using different culinary fats (extra virgin olive oil, conventional sunflower oil and high-oleic sunflower oil) and different frying temperatures (160 and 180 °C) on the composition of the preponderant fish phospholipid classes, phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylcholine (PC), were investigated on Sardina pilchardus. The total fish lipid fraction ...
... Dielectric spectroscopy at low frequencies was applied to analyze vegetable oils, in particular roasted pumpkin seed oils (RPO). Large differences were observed for electrical conductivity not previously applied as a tool in the analysis of crude vegetable oils. RPO have two orders of magnitude higher conductivity than refined sunflower oils and extra virgin olive oils. Differences in dielectric c ...
... The quantitative variability of isotopic and fatty acid compositions in extra virgin olive oil was investigated in relation to variety, olive ripeness index and geographical origin. The study was carried out in two environments of Umbria region (central Italy), differing in annual/seasonal temperatures and rainfalls. Significant correlation was found between oil isotope compositions and climatic s ...
... Natural oils are increasingly being used in the food, cosmetic, and agrochemical industries in recent years. However, natural oils with high market values are often counterfeited and adulterated with cheap, poor quality oils, with serious economic implications for the food and cosmetic industries, and potential health implications to consumers. This study reports the first combined use of Fourier ...
... In this work, a new simple method based on a two-step clean-up and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry analysis for the determination of emerging halogenated flame retardants (HFRs), such as dechlorane plus (DP) and brominated phthalates, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in different food items was optimized and validated. Several types of food items, i.e. fish (smoked salmon and cod fi ...
discriminant analysis; extra-virgin olive oil; food quality; foods; high performance liquid chromatography; information processing; least squares; mass spectrometry; metabolomics; product labeling; provenance; ultra-performance liquid chromatography
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... The fraudulent miss-description on food product labels regarding origin or composition is a widespread problem. In this work, a metabolomic approach based on the use of ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled to quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (UHPLC-QTOF-MS) has been applied to identify the differentiating chemical markers that allow geographic origin discrimination betwe ...
... The present paper investigated on the presence of some hydrocarbon contaminants, namely polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), mineral oil hydrocarbons (MOH) comprising saturated (MOSH) and aromatic (MOAH) compounds, and polyolefin oligomeric saturated hydrocarbons (POSH) in olives and extra virgin olive oils from Tunisia. Olive fruits were collected in sites exposed to different environmental c ...
... The techniques of ion mobility are attractive for solving problems in the olive oil sector because they are techniques that provide information quickly, do not require sample preparation and represent a shift towards the use of environmentally-sustainable analytical techniques (green chemistry). This technique could be suitable to determine the origin of the olive oil, quality and adulteration. In ...
Miguel Lastra-Mejias; Manuel Izquierdo; Albertina Torreblanca-Zanca; Regina Aroca-Santos; John C. Cancilla; Julia E. Sepulveda-Diaz; José S. Torrecilla
... In the present research, storage conditions of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) have been monitored using cost-effective fluorescence sensors integrated with intelligent algorithms. Three different Spanish pure EVOOs (Arbequina, Cornicabra, and Picual varieties), as well as samples adulterated with expired EVOO, were kept under different environmental conditions: presence or absence of light, bottle ...
... The variability in carbon isotope composition (δ13C) of the main olive oil fatty acids, together with their relative contents, have been measured in 60 monovarietal olive oils, produced from plants grown in the same orchard and harvested at five ripening stages. The fatty acid content was mainly influenced by the cultivar, without significant changes during ripening. On the contrary, the fatty aci ...
chemometrics; cooking fats and oils; cost effectiveness; data collection; extra-virgin olive oil; fluorescence; fluorescence emission spectroscopy; gastronomy; near-infrared spectroscopy; principal component analysis; provenance; spectral analysis; vegetable oil; vegetables
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... Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is widely used in gastronomy because of its healthy properties, and is a candidate to be adulterated with other vegetable oils to reduce costs. This work shows the results of applying near infrared (NIR) and fluorescence excitation–emission matrix spectroscopies, coupled to chemometric tools, to authenticate and validate the geographic origin of Argentinean EVOO sampl ...
... Monovarietal extra virgin olive oils (EVOOs) from Olea europea trees grown in the same experimental orchard have been characterized by Raman spectroscopy combined with chemometrics. Linear discriminant analysis of the EVOO Raman spectra correctly classified up to 94.4% of samples, as a function of the cultivar, at four different maturation stages. The sensitivity of Raman spectroscopy to the oil c ...
... Phthalates are ubiquitous contaminants in the environment and consumer products. They are used as plasticizers in many plastics used for packaging and articles for food processing, handling and storage.Some phthalates and their metabolites are known to be toxic to reproduction and endocrine disruptors, and consumer exposure has been a concern. Olive oil is of great nutritional and economic importa ...
cultivars; discriminant analysis; extra-virgin olive oil; fatty acids; gas chromatography; least squares; squalene; uncertainty
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... The control of varietal origin is an important issue to insure the authenticity of olive oils. In this study, extra virgin olive oils from five French cultivars were discriminated by applying partial least square discriminant analysis (PLS1-DA) to their fatty acid and squalene compositions obtained by gas chromatography. Two decision rules were compared to determine the varietal origin of predicte ...
... According to the Regulation (EU) 2016/2095, extra virgin olive oils (EVOO) must contain a maximum of 35 mg kg−1 of fatty acid ethyl esters (FAEE). The official method for FAEE quantification is time-consuming and requires the use of a large amount of toxic solvents. Thus, the aim of this work was the application of FT-IR spectroscopy for the development of classification models (i.e. Linear Discri ...
... Novel composite films of low-density polyethylene (LDPE) containing photosensitizing riboflavin (RB) were developed to enhance the broad-spectrum light barrier for the application of light-sensitive food packaging with an additional antimicrobial property. With the conjugated aromatic ring system of RB, the bright yellowish LDPE-RB composite film has excellent performance for absorbing light in th ...
... 3-MCPDE (3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol esters), 2-MCPDE (2-monochloropropane-1,3-diol esters) and GE (glycidyl esters) are heat-induced contaminants that are formed during the refining of vegetable oils under high temperatures, mainly during the deodorization step. Samples commercialized as extra virgin olive oils (EVOO), olive oils and oil blends (n = 76) were analysed for 3-MCPDE, 2-MCPDE and GE. ...
... Olive oil is one of the main vegetable sources of squalene, substance with several interesting properties and applications. This work aims to present and validate a rapid method to quantify squalene in olive oil by gas chromatography (GC) coupled with flame ionization detector and to apply the method to extra virgin olive oils (EVOOs) and olive oils (OOs) from large scale distribution retail, and ...
... A screen-printed electrode was modified using multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) and titanium oxide nanoparticles (TiO2), with a bio-based ionic liquid (RTIL) as a drop-casting medium. The RTILs here used have been proved to be useful for immobilizing nanomaterials on the working electrode surface. The proposed platform has been used to analyze extra-virgin olive oils (EVOOs), produced with oli ...
... Adulteration in extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is a common fraud due to its superior value over other edible oils. Traditional methods of fatty acid and sterol profiling for detecting adulteration demand large amounts of time and excessive use of labor and solvents therefore, new methodologies are needed to determine the authenticity of EVOO that are both time-efficient and cost-effective. Ultra-hi ...
... Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is one of the most abundant oils used in a daily diet of Southern and Coastal European cities with its distinctive sensorial profile and health benefits. Because of its high price, EVOO has become one of the most adulterated foods in the world. The most widely used adulterants are seed and nut oils, lower quality olive oils or old olive oils. Many analytical methodolo ...
... The quality of olive oil depends, among other factors, on the quality of the olives used. Ergosterol is proposed as a marker for olives degraded by yeast or mold, since yeast as well as mold produce ergosterol, whereas olives do not. Ergosterol was determined in olive oil by on-line HPLC-GC-MS, using the high efficiency of HPLC to separate ergosterol from the sterols that are present at far higher ...
... As a high value commodity on the market, extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is a suitable target for fraudsters. To understand differences in perceived fraud vulnerability between tier groups across the EVOO supply chain and to disclose underlying factors, the perceived fraud vulnerability of 28 companies was examined using the SSAFE food fraud vulnerability assessment tool. Amongst these companies wer ...
... The analysis of the hydrogen stable isotope composition (δ²H) of organic compounds provides information about its geographical origin. In this work, δ²H composition of specific compounds released by direct analytical pyrolysis (Py-CSIA) of extra virgin olive oils EVOOs was studied avoiding the use of any chemical and/or physical treatments, derivatization or previous separation steps. A collection ...
... A front-face fluorescence method has been used to obtain an excitation-emission matrix (EEM) of various Italian mono-cultivar, and mix-cultivar, extra virgin olive oils without any laborious sample preparation. These EEM use excitations from 230 to 360 nm and emissions from 260 to 390 nm to explore potential fingerprint characteristics that could be used for cultivar and geographical origin authen ...
... Due to the health benefits of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) and its increasing consumption patterns, adulteration of these oils using lower grade olive oils like virgin olive oil (VOO) and then later sold as EVOO to unsuspecting consumers has become a concern in the industry. There is a need for quick, reliable and inexpensive detection techniques to unmask such vice in order to realize its benefi ...
data collection; discriminant analysis; electronic nose; extra-virgin olive oil; food safety; gas chromatography; industry; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; quality control; support vector machines
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... Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is frequently adulterated by mixing it with soft refined oils (SROO). The differentiation of EVOO from its blends with SROO is not possible with the most common approaches, and, for this reason, the discriminating power of liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-MS), gas-chromatography ion mobility spectrometry (GC-IMS) and flash gas-chromatography ...
... Nowadays, 144 Protected Designations of Origin (PDO) and Protected Geographical Indications (PGI) under the EU quality schemes correspond to extra virgin olive oil (EVOO). As endorsed by the EU Food Fraud Network, PDO/PGI EVOOs are particularly vulnerable to fraudulent practices because of their high economic value. For this reason, the present study aims to develop an instrumental tool to assess ...
adulterated products; chemometrics; deodorization; extra-virgin olive oil; food safety; methanol; oleic acid; olives; tandem mass spectrometry; ultra-performance liquid chromatography
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... As extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) is a high value commodity, it might be subject of various fraudulent practices. This study is focused on a challenging authentication issue, addition of lower grade, soft-deodorized olive oil to EVOO. In the first step, sample sets of authentic EVOOs, soft-deodorized oils and their admixtures were extracted by aqueous methanol; obtained polar fractions were then an ...
ambient temperature; decision making; decision support systems; extra-virgin olive oil; food safety; hydrolysis; rapid methods; risk; risk assessment; spoilage; turbidity; volatile organic compounds; water activity; water content
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... The extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) commercialized by olive oil companies usually has highly variable turbidity characteristics. Ten veiled EVOOs with different water content, insoluble solid content, water activity, degree of turbidity, and microbial cell count, and their respective filtered samples, were studied both to assess the risk of degradation phenomena and to suggest a rapid method to meas ...